Compliance Perspectives: Healthcare Compliance at the Border
Florida has adopted new requirements for hospital emergency departments (EDs) as part of the broader ‘Live Healthy’ legislative package. Effective July 1, 2025, all hospitals with an ED must submit a “nonemergent care access...more
On January 30, 2023, President Biden announced that both the COVID-19 national emergency and the public health emergency (PHE) will end May 11, 2023. This announcement has left many healthcare providers considering how the...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently released new guidance about the process for converting to a Rural Emergency Hospital (“REH”) – a new Medicaid provider type effective Jan. 1, 2023. REHs are...more
CMS continues to issue revised guidance to health care providers to assist them with dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, including blanket waivers of CMS’s conditions of participation (“CoPs”). New guidance published from CMS’s...more
As the number of coronavirus cases across the country continue to rise, CMS has issued several coronavirus-specific memorandums to healthcare providers and laboratories. In the past two weeks, CMS has issued disease-specific...more
President Trump's budget was released yesterday as the fiscal year (FY) 2020 appropriations process ramps up. The FY 2020 budget requests $87.1 billion in discretionary funding for the Health and Human Services (HHS)...more
In its final Calendar Year (CY) 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) Rule released November 2, 2018 (the Final Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized its proposal to make payments for...more
Hospitals and health systems are making stark choices between offering models to assist their communities and reduce medical costs-or raking in profits, no matter how outrageous and shame-provoking their charges might be....more
I. SHPDA Administrative Report - AL2015-022, Gulf Health Hospitals, d/b/a Thomas Hospital, Daphne, AL: Proposes to establish a freestanding emergency department (FED). The project was approved with stipulation of...more